Anime Lectio: Toilet - bound Hanako-kun Season 2

                                                            1. Why do Anime Lectio? 

Anime Lectio is a time for us to stop and take a breath. Between work, activities, family life, and social media, our minds are always moving. We rarely take time to contemplate and ask, why am I watching this anime? What’s the point of all this? And, how is this making me feel? 

2. Put away all distractions 

(phones, work, etc.)

We are so enslaved to things that stimulate our minds. Let this be a moment for us to free our minds, look inside of ourselves, and be at peace.

3. Deep Breathing

Take several deep breaths. Let your mind relax. If you’ve had any questions, desires, or struggles that you’ve been hiding or stuffing away, let them rise up to the surface. 

4. Open yourself to God’s Presence

Remember God places all our thoughts and desires inside of us, and He uses them to draw us closer to Himself. God gives us a community to help us understand who we are and what He is calling us to do. The faces of other people you know and don't know are like signs of God’s presence.  

5. Think About What’s on Your Mind in Relation to the Anime

Think about what’s been on your mind in relation to the anime.  The following is an example of such thoughts written by me. 

What would you want to do if you found out that you didn't have long to live?  What if other people knew this about you and you didn't know yourself until other people were doing something about it for you?  Would you go along with what they were doing for you or would you want to do something else about it instead?  The answers to these questions can be seen in the second season of the series Toilet-bound Hanako-kun. 

6. Brief and written explanation of the anime

Pay attention to how the brief and written explanation of the anime seen on this blog, or seeing the anime for yourself since that's better than any explanation, might “speak” to you or shed light on the things that have been on your minds.

The second season of the series Toilet-bound Hanako-kun starts off with the crazy adventures seen in the first season based on interacting with some of the school's wonders, or ghosts.  However, due to interacting with one in the beginning of the second season that has power over time, we find out that one of the female characters doesn't have a lot of time left to live, which the ghost she tries to, and does, find in the first season already knew.  With the help of one of the other school wonders who can create a fake world where the female character can live longer, the female character and her male friend end up in this fake world without knowing what's going on, which is what the ghost the female character finds in the first season wants for her.  However, the female character finds out what is going on with her and wants to go back to the real world anyway in order to actually live, which she finds a way to do.

7.  Reflect on the anime

Has this brief and written explanation of the anime shed any light on what's been on your minds?  The following is an example of a reflection on the anime from me.

Other people can help you make, or even make, decisions for you, depending on what the decisions are, as well as other factors, like what the person, or people, making the decision know vs. what another person, or people, involved in making the decision know. Being able to live longer or live with the time you have, however long it may be, is one of these difficult decisions. Being able to live longer sounds like a good thing, but it usually involves being able to survive longer, not live longer. Surviving and living are two different things.

8. Final Prayer

Please voice any prayer intentions for friends, family, or people around the world that relate to this anime.  The following is an example written by me.

Let us pray that we can understand the difference(s) between surviving and living.